This is a page (made by Janus Proect) describing the hazards of deserts, how to survive in deserts and other things regarding deserts. You will learn a lot and I hope that you shall remember something from this web-page after viewing it.

Background Information

The Definition of a Desert:

A desert is an area of land, usually in very hot or very cold temperatures that usually consist only of sand, gravel, rock, or ice with little or no vegetation, no permanent bodies of water and rainfall in deserts. However, flash-floods (violent floods that occur irregularly without any signs before it happens), tend to give the plants (such as cacti) their yearly dose of rainfall.
The largest and coldest desert that is known in the world is Antarctica and the largest and hottest desert known in the world is the Sahara desert.
Animals, which live in the desert, are extremely amazing in different ways. For example, kangaroos, which live in the desert, lick themselves to keep cool.
Other animals that live in the desert are: Snakes, Spadefoot toads, honey ants, Spinifex Hopping Mice, Budgerigars, camels, bilbies and countless others. Most ways animals tend to escape the heat, is by coming out into the open at night instead of the day. However, if the sun comes out, they must be vigilant to go back into their cave, burrow or their home. Also, if you're wondering how they obtain food and water, well, most animals that live in the desert are herbivores. That means that they only eat plants and vegetables. They also get their water from the moisture in the plants they eat. Some animals, such as the camel, can store food, water and fat for later use. This is the reason why they have humps. Scorpions obtain their moisture from the prey they eat. The scarab beetle has absolutely no problems at all because they obtain their food and water by eating animal dung!
Not only do animals survive in the desert, plants do as well! Plants such as the Spinifex plants and the Mulga plants adapt in the desert to ensure their survival. Plants that usually survive in the desert for an extremely long period of time are called perennials and plants that usually have an extremely short life-cycle, are called ephemerals. Once the ephemeral plants die, they tend to leave seeds on the ground. Once the occasional flash-flood arrives, they grow into another ephemeral plant.